How to talks

Our how to talks have started so far we have been shown how to crack and egg, make Jaffa fudge, make a cup of tea, play basketball, do a head stand and make scrambled eggs. I wonder what next weeks talks will include...

Science Alive- Fairytale Forensics

Science Alive visited Weedons School today with a mystery to solve! They had a twist to the Fairytale Goldilocks and the Three Bears, poor Goldilocks didn't eat the porridge, break the chairs and sleep in the beds of the bears. It was one of her friends but which one? Here's some photos of us predicting, observing and experimenting to find out!

Book Week- authors visit

The junior school had a visit this morning from the author Paula Green. They had a wonderful morning hearing poems of Paula's and some from children their own age. They then made poems as a whole group with the help of Paula. Here is one of the poems they made...

The Native Animals of New Zealand

The owl hunts at night

The owl always hoots at night

The frog is hoppy and slobbery

The frog has a really long tongue

The lizard changes colour

The pukeko hides in long grasses

The moth likes light

Procedural Writing

On Tuesday we kicked off our procedural writing unit by writing the steps for how to blow up a balloon. Our teacher became a robot who only reacted to children's writing and we had to help her to blow up a balloon. It was hard work and we learnt a lot about writing CLEAR steps and making sure we had our steps in the right order. Later in the week some of use chewed bubble gum for the first time! Excitement was high in Room 4 as we went about writing a procedure for how to blow a bubble with gum! We have published these and they are now displayed on our classroom walls. See below for a sneak peak...

Science

In the lead up to Science Alive's visit to Room 4 we have been read the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears and yesterday we made some porridge. We measured the temperature of the porridge at set intervals of time and talked about what temperatures were hot, warm and cold. This lead to a discussion about how long the bears should have walked in the woods for while waiting for their porridge to cool. Check out the booklet we are each keeping our experiment notes in below.

How to talks

To support our procedural writing unit the children of Room 4 have been invited to present a how to talk to the class. We are going to video these, so watch this space...

Maori Day of the Week Song

Everyday Room 4 start the day with a song! This song is about the Maori day of the week. Below see some photos of our poster filled out for today- Friday and listen to our beautiful singing to the tune of Bob the Builder.

Wally Bear Badge Making

As we have been following Wally's travels on his blog we have noticed that he has made a lot of new friends!
We wanted Wally to have a small gift to give these friends when he had to say farewell. We wanted this gift to remind Wally's new friends of where he was from, New Zealand. We had been looking at kowhaiwhai patterns in art and tried to use these in our badge designs. Check them out!

Ways to make the number 10

In maths we have been playing the game dice roll. We roll 2 and sometimes 3 dice and add the numbers together. It's a super way to practice our addition basic facts. Today we recapped the ways to make the number 10 to help us when we are adding 3 dice together. We made a rainbow to help us. Look at Georgia's great book work!

Measurement Olympics!

For the first 5 weeks of this term our strand maths topic is measurement. We have been learning to measure using a ruler in the first week and today started the Measurement Olympics! There are 3 events in total, all involving a pom. Our first event today was Kick the Pom. Here are some snaps of us busy at work.

School Cross Country

The School Cross Country is in the second week of Term 2 on Thursday 16 May. We were training hard as a class before the school holidays and I am excited to see who has kept up their training over the school holidays. See you Monday!

Wally Bear

We have been following Wally Bear on his travels in class. If you want to follow him at home click on this link: http://www.weedonswally.blogspot.co.nz/

Hockey

Ready to play Cat and Mouse

Stopping the ball

The Mouse Team

Cat and Mouse chaos!

Room 4 have been learning how to play hockey along with the rest of Weedons School through a contract with Canterbury Hockey. We have a half hour session every Tuesday and Thursday with our fabulous coaches Hayley and Rachel! Last week we played the game Cat and Mouse. We always enjoy the friendly game at the end of each session.